Episode: Aidie's path
Monday, April 21, 2008

"If you are good at your hobby, make it your future occupation. Remember, don't let anything get in your way."

When people smile, praise and congratulate you on the things you do, it brings you happiness. This occurs quite a lot in my life and I hope to get more.Hehe.. Well, people like to be noticed and appreciated, right? So, through designing, I am more noticeable and appreciated.

It all started when I was in secondary school, a subject called Design and Technology really changed me. The subject is not boring like the rest that I took. Not much study, the paper is easy,it requires drawing skills(I like!!) and hands-on work. I quickly realize that making things with my hands are my specialty. I am blessed that I got these genes from my father, a creative and hands-on person.

But something else is needed in Design, and that is creativity. I do appreciate good design stuff, but at that time, I do not know how to be as creative as designers. Soon, I made a comparison of design stuff and non-design stuff. There is a huge distinction of class and uniqueness. All designed stuff are creating a new statement. I tried experimenting on this, though it is difficult, I think slowly I'll make my own statement.

Making my own statement is what I did. In secondary school, I observed that everybody have to follow a certain rule on dressing, by wearing uniform and stuff. What I did is to be different by not breaking the rules. And I think I did when I started wearing plain white specs to school. Though it is very eye catching, nothing in the rule book says I can't wear white specs. In a way, I set the trend that lasted till end of my secondary school life, because by then the principal set new rules..Hahax! Too bad..

I somehow became a trend setter for once. With that, I tried to put it in my designs. Once, we had to do a presentation board on social studies, we were given a plain cardboard to paste our studies on it. I thought it through, and put the element of design to it and make people who view it, feel and experience they never did. I simply change the cardboard to acrylic and put sliding mechanism on it to make it interactive. It turned out to be great. Though, it still takes time to master, I believe I can do it, someday.

Feeling good, by making people feel good is my way of life. In order to do that, designing has helped me in many ways than one. And that is how I landed in design. If it ever become my occupation, I would be one step closer to being the happiest guy on earth.

Other things make me feel good too. There is always a woman behind every successful man. Thats what they say. I don't know about being successful, but to me I believe, what pushes a man to do the things he do and not give up easily, is having a girl by his side. Thus, he has someone to motivate him further. Another aspect of my life, that I believe fuels me. Until then, that's it for now.



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